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As the race to take away headphone ports on smart phones continues, you may still be thinking about switching from wired to wireless headphones, especially if there’s a phone upgrade in your future. Before you commit to a set of cans or earbuds, especially...

If you’ve ever broken an iPhone screen, dealt with a drained-of-life iPhone battery or unsuccessfully tried to rescue an iPhone from ocean water, the gigantic pile of dead devices might feel a little haunting.
They sit in a rose gold, space gray,...

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In September, Austin will be missing one of its key videogaming-focused conferences. But another one, more focused on the management of game companies, will be taking its place.
The Austin Game Conference, which made a return to Austin in 2016 and...

This week on the “Texas Standard” radio program, we talked about why Apple has been so aggressive of late pushing its Apple Pay digital wallet platform, to the point that some users are trying to figure out ways to get rid of an alert badge that it...

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Happy Friday, Austin! Here are some of the tech stories we’re following
Backpage.com pleads guilty in human trafficking
In case you missed it yesterday, the company behind classified ads site Backpage.com has pleaded guilty to charges of human trafficking...

An executive for the Paris-based company Connecthings says that a pilot program it started last month with Capital Metro to provide real-time bus information to the blind and visually impaired in Austin is going well and that he hopes it will expand...

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Good Friday morning, Austin! Here are some of the tech stories we’re reading this morning.
Facebook keeps stepping in it
Facebook has been on the ropes of late over its Cambridge Analytica data snafu, but that hasn’t kept it from making moves that...

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My 8-year-old is a savant at lyrics and beats from current hit music (the clean songs only, I hope). When she began asking if she could have her own iPhone in order to listen to music, my wife and I balked. But then I came with what I thought might...

The woman who originated the #MeToo movement, meant to support victims of sexual harassment and assault, said Wednesday that although we’re in a different time than we were before a wave of recent activism around the topic, much work is left to be...